Heathrow noise ‘to affect a million’

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More than a million people will be subjected to harmful noise if Heathrow is
allowed to build a third runway, Boris Johnson will claim in a submission to
the government-appointed panel that will choose where to build the next
runway for London.

People in Kensington, Chelsea, Chiswick, Egham, Southall and Deptford would
suffer noise pollution at a level identified by health chiefs as potentially
harmful, according to analysis conducted for the Mayor of London by the
Civil Aviation Authority.

The analysis shows that 1,097,200 people live within a 55 decibel noise
contour calculated to encompass a three-runway Heathrow. The number